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Title: Down for the Count
Artist: Y & T
Genre: Hard Rock
Released: 1985
Tracks:
1 - In the Name of Rock - 5:30
2 - All American Boy - 2:22
3 - Anytime at All - 4:30
4 - Anything for Money - 3:20
5 - Face Like an Angel - 4:34
6 - Summertime Girls - 3:27
7 - Looks Like Trouble - 4:05
8 - Your Mama Don't Dance - 2:48
9 - Don't Tell Me What to Wear - 4:00
10 - Hands of Time - 6:10
Overview:
Artist: Y & T
Genre: Hard Rock
Released: 1985
Tracks:
1 - In the Name of Rock - 5:30
2 - All American Boy - 2:22
3 - Anytime at All - 4:30
4 - Anything for Money - 3:20
5 - Face Like an Angel - 4:34
6 - Summertime Girls - 3:27
7 - Looks Like Trouble - 4:05
8 - Your Mama Don't Dance - 2:48
9 - Don't Tell Me What to Wear - 4:00
10 - Hands of Time - 6:10
Overview:
Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1985 through A&M Records. It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song had initially appeared as the lone studio track on the band's live album, Open Fire, released earlier in the year.
After years of beating their collective head against the post of hard rock stardom, Y&T finally succumbed to the commercial conventions of the '80s and bowed to the synthesizer gods with 1985's Down for the Count. Under the guidance of new producer Kevin Beamish (REO Speedwagon, Saxon), Y&T joined the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb." Not exactly a smash hit, the record is littered with faceless, going-nowhere-fast rockers like "Anything for Money" and "Looks Like Trouble." Even the relatively amusing "Don't Tell Me What to Wear" sounds completely forced when coming from a bunch of supposedly grown men. Out of this mucky muck, "Hands of Time" stands out as a fine, dramatic power ballad in the Y&T tradition -- anthemic and cheesy in all the right quantities. Following Down for the Count, Y&T's long-running relationship with A&M would finally come to and end, but the band would find small comfort at their new home, Geffen.
After years of beating their collective head against the post of hard rock stardom, Y&T finally succumbed to the commercial conventions of the '80s and bowed to the synthesizer gods with 1985's Down for the Count. Under the guidance of new producer Kevin Beamish (REO Speedwagon, Saxon), Y&T joined the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb." Not exactly a smash hit, the record is littered with faceless, going-nowhere-fast rockers like "Anything for Money" and "Looks Like Trouble." Even the relatively amusing "Don't Tell Me What to Wear" sounds completely forced when coming from a bunch of supposedly grown men. Out of this mucky muck, "Hands of Time" stands out as a fine, dramatic power ballad in the Y&T tradition -- anthemic and cheesy in all the right quantities. Following Down for the Count, Y&T's long-running relationship with A&M would finally come to and end, but the band would find small comfort at their new home, Geffen.
